Malware


"Malware", short for "malicious software", is any program designed to help a hacker negatively affect the normal operation of a computer.  Most forms of malware - including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, and rootkits - are intended to allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to a machine, without the knowledge of its owner, in order to perform criminal tasks including information theft and amassing botnets to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Computer users are often tricked into installing malware through social engineering techniques, or are unaware that a seemingly non-malware infected program they have installed was infected, containing additional code designed to stealthily perform malicious tasks.

Learn more about the history of malware from the network intrusion experts at Radware.

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